Achebe, Chinua , author ,
Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe. -- .-- First Anchor Books edition
First published in 1959, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.
ISBN 0385474547
Igbo (African people) -- Fiction
British -- Nigeria -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Fic
Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe. -- .-- First Anchor Books edition
First published in 1959, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.
ISBN 0385474547
Igbo (African people) -- Fiction
British -- Nigeria -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Fic